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enSurveying ICT Use in Education in India and South Asiahttp://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/south-asia-survey
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<img alt="Survey of ICT and Education in India and South Asia" src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/files/edutech/infodev-southasia.jpg" style="float:left; height:259px; width:200px" />The World Bank's <a href="http://www.infodev.org/education">infoDev</a>&nbsp;program recently released the latest volume in&nbsp;its periodic&nbsp;surveys of the use of information and communication technology in the education sector around the world.</p>
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Following on earlier efforts that examined the <a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/publication.441.html">Caribbean</a> and <a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.353.html">Africa</a> (and UNESCO-Bangkok's much earlier examination of the <a href="http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/e-library/key-resources/metasurvey/">Asia-Pacific</a>&nbsp;region), <a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.889.html"><em>ICT for Education in India and South Asia</em></a>&nbsp;catalogues what is happening related to the use of educational technologies in this important part of the world.</p>
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<em>[Disclaimer: I helped initiate this series when I was at infoDev, and was a reviewer for this latest work, and so am not a neutral disinterested observer here!]</em></p>
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The series of reports include:</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:22:00 +0000Michael Trucano585 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech1-to-1 educational computing initiatives around the worldhttp://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/1-to-1-around-the-world
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img height="171" alt="replicating one-to-one, to one, to one ... | image atribution at bottom" width="227" align="left" src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/files/edutech/gymnastics-07923-2.JPG" />The <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/category/tags/olpc">One Laptop Per Child</a> program has brought much attention to issues related to '1-to-1 computing' (each child has her/his own personal computing device).&nbsp; While perhaps the most prominent initiative of this sort in public consciousness, OLPC is just one of many such programs around the world.&nbsp; At <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/1-to-1">a recent event in Vienna</a>, the OECD, the Inter-american Development Bank and the World Bank brought together representatives from these programs, the first such face-to-face global gathering of leaders in this area to share information and insights about their experiences.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In putting together this event, it was clear that there was no consolidated list of leading '1-to-1 educational computing initiatives'.&nbsp; Here's a first attempt at such a list, based on participants in this event (links are meant as pointers to more related information; not all lead to the specific project sites):</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:11:34 +0000Michael Trucano558 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutechWhat have we learned from OLPC pilots to date?http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/what-have-we-learned-from-olpc-pilots-to-date
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img height="75" alt="CC licensed photo courtesy of Daniel Drake via Flickr" width="75" align="left" src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/files/edutech/NANDblasting.jpg" />&nbsp;It's been four years since the The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (known then as the '$100 laptop) was announced.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to recent <a href="http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/10_laptop_flops_India_orders_25_lakh_OLPC_laptops_-nid-56068.html">unconfirmed news reports from India</a>,&nbsp;one&nbsp;quarter million of the little green and white OLPC XO laptops are now on order for use in 1500 hundred schools on the subcontinent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Four years on, what have we learned about the impact of various OLPC pilots that might be of relevance to a deployment in India?&nbsp;&nbsp;Thankfully, preliminary&nbsp;results are starting to circulate among researchers.&nbsp; While nothing yet has approached what many consider to be the <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=872740">gold standard</a>&nbsp;of evaluation work in this area,&nbsp;some of this research is beginning to see the light of day (or at least the Internet) -- and more is planned.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 08 May 2009 04:01:17 +0000Michael Trucano497 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutechFrom Nepal to the Nordic countries, innovations in digital learning resourceshttp://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/from-nepal-to-the-nordic-countries-innovations-in-digital-learning-resources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The recent <a href="http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/332">launch</a> of the <a href="http://www.pustakalaya.org/">E-Pustakalaya digital library</a> in Nepal is one example of the innovative ways that countries are exploring how to provide learning materials to schools in electronic formats.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:22:47 +0000Michael Trucano492 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech